Monthly Archives: October 2016

Slate reports tonight that the Trump Organization appears to have a secret server which communicates exclusively with a high-profile Russian bank. The story is loaded with rather technical details. Here’s an excerpt: Earlier this month, the group of computer scientists passed the logs to Paul Vixie. In the world of DNS experts, there’s no higher authority. Vixie wrote central strands ...

NBC News reports: The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. The FBI did not comment. Manafort told NBC News “none of it is true … There’s no investigation going on by the FBI that I’m aware of.” He said ...

Because pussy-grabbing is a GOOD example. Talking Points Memo reports: Donald Trump said Monday that Hillary Clinton’s purported advance knowledge of two debate questions during the Democratic primary race made her a “bad example” for his 10-year-old son and other children, subverting one of Clinton’s own most frequent attack lines against him. “Hillary Clinton gets the questions to a debate, ...

CNN reports: Sen. Richard Burr privately mused over the weekend that gun owners may want to put a “bullseye” on Hillary Clinton, according to audio obtained by CNN. The North Carolina Republican, locked in a tight race for reelection, quipped that as he walked into a gun shop “nothing made me feel better” than seeing a magazine about rifles “with ...

The Hill reports: The FBI’s disclosure of the discovery of additional potential evidence in the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was unfair to the Democratic presidential nominee, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday. Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey that his announcement less than ...

NBC News reports: Hillary Clinton’s 6-point national lead over Donald Trump remains virtually unchanged since last week, even after FBI Director James Comey announced the discovery of emails that could be “pertinent” to the investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server. The NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll showed Clinton with a 6-point lead over Trump in the ...

Mediaite reports: The white nationalist who has sponsored pro-Trump robocalls throughout the election cycle unveiled a new campaign in Utah intended to convince voters there that conservative independent candidate Evan McMullin is secretly gay. The robocall features William Daniel Johnson, a Los Angeles-based attorney and leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party (AFP), telling Utahans that he believes “Evan ...

Donald Trump leads his supporters in chants of “lock her up!” but Kellyanne Conway is upset that the mention of FBI Director James Comey drew boos at a Hillary rally. Via Raw Story: According to Conway, Clinton was “encouraging” her supporters to boo FBI Director James Comey. “It’s a very dangerous precedent to have somebody that was secretary of state, ...

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Today, Pat Robertson kicked off “The 700 Club” by discussing FBI Director James Comey’s letter to congressional committee chairs informing them that the bureau will look into emails that it recovered on a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner that might be related to its inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Robertson, a Trump supporter, ...

Roll Call reports: Democrats have filed lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump campaign and other Republicans to stop potential voter intimidation at the polls in four battleground states. The complaints — filed Sunday by state Democratic parties in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arizona — came nine days before the presidential election and allege a “coordinated campaign of vigilante voter intimidation” ...

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump’s hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation. But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have taken issue with some of the services provided by the veteran GOP strategist, who has advised candidates from 1996 GOP ...

Homocon radio host and Trump lackey Tammy Bruce appeared on Fox News today to regurgitate Trump’s claim that the media is collaborating to bury anti-Hillary stories. As proof, Bruce cited the Washington Post, which she says has ignored recent news about climbing Obamacare premiums. Five seconds of googling will find story after story after story on that topic from the ...

But Corey Lewandowski still works there. Via Politico: CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing former contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile sharing questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation. Hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile, whose CNN contract was suspended ...

CNBC reports: Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel amped up his support for Donald Trump on Monday, saying the billionaire businessman gets “the big things” right despite “offensive and inappropriate” remarks. “No matter what happens in this election, what Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away,” he said, according to prepared remarks. “He points toward a new Republican Party beyond ...

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Once upon a time, extremist anti-LGBT activist Theodore Shoebat had high hopes for a Donald Trump presidency, but that was before the GOP nominee held up an “LGBTs for Trump” rainbow flag at a rally in Colorado last night. In a video posted last night, Shoebat fumed that Trump has been utterly corrupted ...

Via Mediaite: Just three days after FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to lawmakers indicating that the investigation into Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server would essentially be reopened, Mr. Mayor aggressively speculated that Comey must be privy to serious information. Giuliani made his remarks during a radio hit on The Joe Piscopo Show on AM 970 ...

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue writes: On August 31, the same day that the most explosive story on this issue was published in the New York Post—it showed Weiner using his son as a “chick magnet” to lure sexual relations—I filed a complaint with the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), the New York branch of the New ...

From World Net Daily: Huge spikes in reported demonic activity all over the world. Black masses and blasphemous rituals held in cities around the country. The rise of Satanism as devil worshipers openly organize in what was once a Christian country. Suddenly, Halloween doesn’t seem so innocent anymore. Karl Payne, the former chaplain of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and a ...

Via Politico: Democrats worried about their White House candidate have nobody to blame but themselves, Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Monday morning, because they’re the ones who nominated a “serial liar” for president. “I would just say that I think all along, we’ve been asking the questions about the wrong candidate. The Democrats own Hillary Clinton,” Conway said ...

An upside-down rainbow flag with shitty lettering. Via the Denver Channel: For the second day in a row, Donald Trump rallied Colorado voters just nine days before the November General Election on Nov. 8. The republican nominee spent Saturday in battleground Jefferson County and held another rally on the UNC campus in Greeley on Sunday. Greeley, which is located in ...